It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.